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strings

Points: 100

Category

General Skills

Question

Can you find the flag in this file without actually running it? You can also find the file in /problems/strings_2_b7404a3aee308619cb2ba79677989960 on the shell server.

Hint

strings

Solution

We are given a file with non-printable characters.

The strings command prints all human-readable characters.

We can use the strings command and grep the flag.

Do strings strings | grep pico to get flag.

Flag

picoCTF{sTrIngS_sAVeS_Time_3f712a28}